note
sflitman
Why not send a command line argument to app2?
<c>
system 'app2.pl word';
</c>
Alternatively you could set an environment variable:
<c>
system "X=word; app2.pl";
</c>
and app2 would have to look for it in %ENV
<p>
HTH,<br>
SSF
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